Hi, First some thinks I found out. When you create with lvmcreate_initrd the /boot/initrd-lvm-<kernel> file the file is an ext2 filesystem. On a debian distro that wil give you problems because the kernel expects a cramfs as ramdisk file. Here is a work around I found : mount the /boot/initrd-lvm-<kernel> file mount -t ext2 -o loop /boot/initrd-lvm-<kernel> /mnt copy the file to temporary working directory cd /mnt; find . -print | cpio -udmp /var/tmp/lvm dismount the /mnt file system and mount the kernel original mount -t cramfs -o loop /boot/initrd.img-<kernel> cd /mnt; find . -print | cpio -udmp /var/tmp/lvm now create the new cramfs initrd file cd /var/tmp; mkcramfs lvm/ initrd.cramfs make sure the owner and group member are root <chown -R root:root initrd.cramfs) To be sure you can check the initrd.cramfs with cramfsck -v initrd.cramfs. Now I am wondering about one thing ? cramfs is a readonly filesystem when the system boot it executes a vgscan and that creates a "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created". But because the cramfs is readonly, wil this not be an impossibility, and is the cramfs ramdisk file not possible at all !! Please responce on this subject. Greetz, Jan -- With regards Jan H. van Gils Internet web-page http://www.VGNet.NL/ Internet e-mail address JanVG@VGNet.NL RIPE Whois JHG5-RIPE, 6BONE Whois JHG1-6BONE _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
